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Fred Astaire

The screen dancer whose apparent effortlessness depended on ferocious precision.

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Astaire’s insistence on showing dances clearly and at length shaped how Hollywood photographed musical performance.

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1934 · Musical comedy

An early Astaire-Rogers vehicle that established the pair’s elegant dance-comedy formula.

1935 · Musical comedy

Astaire and Rogers glide through mistaken identities, Irving Berlin songs, and Art Deco fantasy.

1936 · Musical comedy

A romantic musical built around some of the most celebrated dances in the Astaire-Rogers cycle.